EP0860786A3 - System and method for hierarchically grouping and ranking a set of objects in a query context - Google Patents

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EP0860786A3
EP0860786A3 EP98301199A EP98301199A EP0860786A3 EP 0860786 A3 EP0860786 A3 EP 0860786A3 EP 98301199 A EP98301199 A EP 98301199A EP 98301199 A EP98301199 A EP 98301199A EP 0860786 A3 EP0860786 A3 EP 0860786A3
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Rong Nickle Chang
Hamed Abdelfattah Ellozy
John Martin Prager
Edward Cholchin So
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Topically relevant objects in an object database are first identified using any generally known methods to obtain a set of topically relevant objects (topically relevant set). Parents, and in alternative embodiments other ancestors, of one or more of the topically relevant objects are identified according to directional structural relationships that the parents have with respect to the topically relevant objects. These objects form a set of structurally relevant objects (structurally relevant set). In some embodiments, the user query identifies one or more of these structural relationships. The topically relevant objects are then organized under one or more of their respective parents to form a hierarchy level of both (topically relevant and structurally relevant) sets of objects. In some preferred embodiments, the process can iterate to create more than one hierarchy level.
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